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NOMADS DONATE Cliff and Bea Ersrnan of the Ausable River Nomads present a $1,000 cheque to
John Tinney and Gordon Johnson of the Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority Foundation.
By Bob Trotter
Opposition by the consumers
association, th^ processors. and the
grocery chains to a supply -managed
marketing board for potatoes is just
another example of the great and
growing rift between rural and urban
people in this country.
Potato growers could prove beyond
a shadow of doubt that they made
money under the existing free enter-
prise system only twice since 1979.
Yet during the national hearings. the
opposing parties argued that forma-
tion of a potato board would cost jobs.
boost prices and put some distributors
out of business. It didn't matter that
perhaps most of the farmers produc-
ing potatoes would be forced out of
business without the protection pro-
vided by a supply -managed
marketing board.. •
In other words. it doesn't matter if
farmers are forced out of business as
long as the rest of us are 'okay.
It is no Ionggr an issue that can be
swept under the rug.
• Terrance Sullivan of Charlo, N.B.•
must pay his neighbors $39.000 for loss
of enjoyment of their .property caus-
ed by odors from his pig farm.
In British Columbia. urban
neighbors burned down a pig barn to
eliminate livestock odors.
In Ontario, a Bruce County farmer
lutes; are app,ec,aled b ebb Teon•r EMaN Rd (twos Ont 7430 2C 7 J
was ordered not to enlarge his cattle
barn because the resulting odors and
the noise could cause a disruption of
enjoyment to some of his urban
neighbors.
Right. now,• these are isolated in-
cidents. But the cases are becoming
more common. If such incidents pro-
liferate, farmers will soon get the idea
they are not wanted.
And when you put a farmer out o1
business, you don't just break• the
farmer; you break his heart. Most
people farm because they love it. Any
other way of life is anathema. It is like
trying to domesticate some wild
animals. No matter how well they are
treated, they still long 16 roam free.
No matter how good a job some.
farmers get in the city. they are not
happy until they get back to the land.
When townspeople move to •the
country. they know about farm noise;
farm dust, farm odors. Animals pro-
duce tons of manure and. as 1 have
said before, manure is not the stuff of
which Elizabeth Arden perfumes are
made.
Farmers need more power to fight
such cases. They need more power in
other sectors of the economy. They
need more good public relations pro -
'grams to educate others. In short.
they need power:
In an attempt to increase their
UCO leases out mill
United Co-operatives of Ontario
(UCO) today announces that it has
reached an agreement with ADM
Agri -Industries, Ltd., a Canadian sub-
sidiary of Archer -Daniels -Midland
Company of Decatur, Illinois to lease
and operate the UCO Windsor Grain
Terminal for an initial term of 10
years as a public elevator under -
licence of the Canadian Grain
Commission.
ADM - UCO Grainco Division will
be established to purchase Canadian
produced grain, merchandise grain in
the domestic and international
markets, and market the services of
the Windsor Grain Terminal. This
new operating division will he head-
quartered in Windsor and is expected
to be fully operational within thirty
days.
United Co-operatives of Ontario will
focus more directly on improving ser-
- vice to producers through the Co-op
country elevator system and direc-
ting -producers' grain to market.
Archer -Daniels -Midland is the
largest food ingredient processor and
marketer in North America with
sales exceeding five billion dollars.
The company mills wheat, grinds
corn, crushes soyabeans, manufac-
tures livestock feeds and produces
fuel -grade ethanol.
UCO is the largest farm supply and
marketing co-operative in .Ontario,
with sales of five hundred million
dollars. It provides a complete line of
farm production inputs and home pro-
ducts including feed, seed, fertilizer,
petroleum and hardware through ap-
proximately 100 Co-op sales and ser-
vice centres across the province. It
also markets livestock and grain.
One-stop shopping for
fall crop inputs
Cook's has everything you need to get your crop
into the ground ... and get more out of it. Top -
yielding winter wheat and,canola varieties. Fertilizer
blending and custom application. Soil testing and
analysis. Plus valuable advice to make your hard -
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power, the Ontario Federation of
Agriculture and the Christian
Farmers Federation of Ontario are
proposing an automatic checkoff in
which a portion of every farmers' pro-
perty tax rebate* in Ontario will be
channelled into a general farm
organization fund or into a research
pool.
This checkoff may be refunded to
the farmer if he or she does not want
to support a general farm organiza-
tion but the farmer must make ap-
plication for the refund. •
I think the idea is excellent although
I fear an automatic checkoff could
automatically distance the farmer
from the organizations. Unless they
are active in their federations.
farmers will soon lose interest in
them.
- With enough funds channelled into
those federations, though campaigns
to get and keep farmers involved can
be mounted.. Until now, farm -
organizations have been hampered by
lack of funds and have simply not.
been able to mount effective public
relations programs. •
The checkoff would provide some
money to lessen this undesirable gap
between the cities and the farms. This
rural -urban dichotomy could be
dissipated before it gets a permanent
foothold in our society:
Away from canola
Turnip crops improve
Th recent plummet in the populari-
ty of Ontario -grown winter canola is
being applauded by the province's
rutabaga growers, who point to the
canola crop as the source of the dead-
ly turnip mosaic virus.
The virus, which is estimated to
have cost the rutabaga industrx hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars, began
laying waste to field in -1985, the year
it settled into the Lucan-Exeter area,
home of 80 percent of Ontario product
✓ tion and supplier of close to half of
North American markets.
Growers were quick to link the
upswing of the virus in their turnip
crop to the introduction in the area of
winter canola. A member of the
brassica family, like rutabagas,
canola over -winters the virus which,
in turn, can be transmitted later by
aphids.
Growers complained that when
canola was on a roll, the turnip
mosaic virus swept through their
rutabagas, wiping out entire firelds in
some cases and threatening the future
of an $8 -million industry.
Now, however, with the popularity
of winter canola slipping in conjunc—
tion with the price, rutabaga growers
are reporting a return to the bumber
days of virus -free turnips.
"I've got a good -crop this year,"
reports Eric Devlaeminck, a Lucan-
area grower who claims the virus cost
him more than• $100,000 in the
previous two years.
Devlaeminck's explanation for this
sudden upturn in his fortunes is sim-
ple: "I've rented land - away from
home and away from canola".
He says there's very little virus in
rutabaga fields this year, with maybe
half of the province's 50 growers stan-
ding to lose 'Utile 10 percent range"
of their crop. That may sound high,
but Devlaeminck said it's nothing
compared to the disastrous 1985, the
year that "everybody got hit„' and
Nomads donate
to conservation
Ausable River Nomad members
Cliff and Bea Ersman presented John
Tinney and Gordon Johnson of the
Ausable Bayfield Conservation
Authority with a cheque of $1.000 that
will be put towards conservation work
in the area.
Along with the donation, a sugges-
tion was made at 'the Nomads'
meeting Thursday evening that' road
signs be placed near the Ausable
River Nomads' overnight
campground.
Also, the Nomads recently donated
$200 to the Ronald McDonald House
and will be contributing another $300
within the next few months.
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recent bus trip of retired teacherssot Huron. T -A photo
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but a small, stunted root.
But while there is no final consen-
sus on the virus, University of Guelph
canola researcher David Hume
recently admitted that the virus has
become more severe since the in -
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